Perhaps there is no work of art more distinctive or enchanting than the Water Lilies series, or Les Nymphéas, painted by the French Impressionist painter, Claude Monet. Recognisable at a glance, Monet's Water Lilies capture the complex beauty, fragility, and radiance found in nature. At his home in the French village of Giverny, Claude Monet took his easel outside to the lush ponds surrounding his cosy little house and set to capturing the plant life of his property on the canvas. The result was Water Lilies, a series of approximately 250 individual paintings which were created during the last 30 years of Monet's life.